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2025-04-11 08:46:53

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@nprofile…twud interesting. From the Wikipedia article on the "Martha Mitchell effect":
Quoting psychotherapist Joseph Berke, [Bell et al.] report that, "even paranoids have enemies."[3] Delusions are "abnormal beliefs" and may be bizarre (considered impossible to be true), or non-bizarre (possible, but considered by the clinician as highly improbable). Beliefs about being poisoned, being followed, marital infidelity or a conspiracy in the workplace are examples of non-bizarre beliefs that may be considered delusions.
Related:
The Cassandra complex is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual's accurate prediction of a crisis is ignored or dismissed.

2025-04-09 06:43:43

Y'all the tariffs aren't a distraction. Whatever policy you think people should focus on instead, the tariffs are what will fund and facilitate it. The tariffs are a key part of the plan.
Have you read executive orders like EO# 14153, 14154, or 14241?
Those are just three examples detailing domestic Department of Defense operations to extract energy and mineral resources from occupied land, in preparation for the tariffs that are now going into effect. That includes building pipelines and mining uranium. For "national security". For bigger military operations, domestic and foreign. The mass deportations, the police state, the imperialist wars, all of these require energy, minerals, and other resources.
The tariffs, of course, are meant to make those resources more costly to import. Since they plan to go war with China, well, China could just put an embargo on the US. No more goods from China! But if they can get those goods domestically? If they can purchase Greenland, annex klanada, invade Mexico? Then the whole world could place sanctions on the US, and the US could still function fine. In theory. That is a pipe dream and they know it.
The main point is to extract revenue to fund these planned operations (domestic military occupation, mass surveillance police state, mass deportations, etc.). They will operate at a loss at first while they scale operations. That loss will hit us--the poor--the most. Prices will go up, or companies will fire people to reduce labor costs, or both, which will spiral in a negative feedback loop, and then boom! Recession. People will lose their jobs, and then their homes. People will starve. And what then? We get poorer while the monopoly gets richer. The monopoly takes that revenue to fund its projects, scale its operations, and deploy its warfare upon a now far more vulnerable population.
If you only focus on the tariffs, well, they just won't make any sense to you. If you only focus on one issue while ignoring the tariffs, you'll miss the monster lurking behind it all--the military monopoly hiding in plain sight. As the saying goes, "missing the forest for the trees". You'll miss an opportunity to rally the working class and lumpenproletariat on a common grievance against the regime (no one wants groceries to get more expensive while they lose their source of income). You'll miss a key point of leverage, something that may, in fact, backfire on the regime disastrously.

2025-02-27 18:47:36

"Israel is supposed to begin withdrawing from the Philadelphi corridor on Saturday, the last day of the first phase, and complete it within eight days."
However, an anonymous "Israeli official" speaking to the Associated Press "said the army needed to remain in the so-called Philadelphi corridor, on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt".
If the occupying force remains in Gaza in any capacity, including in the corridor, it would be a "blatant violation" of the agreements for phase two of the ceasefire.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/fragile-ceasefire-deal-in-jeopardy-as-israeli-official-says-army-wont-withdraw-from-strategic-gaza-corridor

2025-02-19 20:30:06

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"Loeffler...is married to Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, the publicly traded firm that owns the New York Stock Exchange."
Now she leads the Small Business Administration. Reminder that Elon has access to the SBA's IT databases with information on businesses and business owners.

2025-02-19 20:10:03

Characterizing herself as “more conservative than Attila the Hun.”
Is she gonna use the power of small business to try to take back Istanbul and then invade Italy?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-confirms-former-georgia-sen-kelly-loeffler-to-lead-small-business-administration

2025-02-18 16:05:04

*Eric Adams voice* New York is the xenofemme of amerikkka

2025-02-17 18:39:33

"While Silicon Valley executives reap enormous profits, the labor that fuels AI development remains invisibilized. AI is not simply a neutral technological tool—it is embedded within a global system of exploitation that mirrors past colonial labor structures, extracting value from the Global South while keeping its workers marginalized."
https://www.e-ir.info/2025/02/17/tech-imperialism-reloaded-ai-colonial-legacies-and-the-global-south/

2025-02-16 01:23:15

the patient needs lithium from Elon Musk's apartheid mines to live

2025-01-29 22:33:19

I was just about to start working on a post summarizing all the executive orders Trump signed last week, but NPR beat me to it! https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5276293/trump-executive-orders
Unfortunately the NPR Staff only provide what read like AI summaries that just regurgitate the regime's rhetoric with no commentary or context. Thank you NPR for doing exactly what I feared and becoming a propaganda mouthpiece for the neo-nazi autocracy.
Seems I will still have to do that weekly recap thread. It will cover all executive orders and bills Trump signs, plus any other major actions of his admin each week. Aiming to have the first post out tomorrow. Watch this space.